This unit aims to provide a useful introduction to four relevant figures of the so-called American Lost Generation, that is, S. Fitzgerald, J. Steinbeck and E. Hemingway, as well as the narrative of W. Faulkner. Their literary contributions were produced between the 1920s and the 1960s, that is, during the so-called inter-war years (1918-1939), and postwar years, therefore, they are associated to the literary streams of late realism, modernism and post-modernism.  Characterized by being full of youthful idealism, the Lost Generation sought the meaning of life, drank excessively, had love affairs and created some of the finest American literature to date. There were many literary artists involved in this group (John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Ford Maddox Ford, Zelda Fitzgerald). Actually, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway and even W. Faulkner denounced the effects of the World War I and, therefore, are linked to the 1920s, whereas the latter, Faulkner, is associated to the Great Depression in the 1930s. Yet, all of them wrote about social conditions after the World War I.